Buena Esperanza School

At the Bocas Garden Club on Saturday I met the new Peace Corp volunteer from the community at Buena Esperanza. She said the school has water tanks, but no catchment or pipes and the kids do not have clean water to drink. I thought Operation Safe Drinking Water could  help them and contacted Joe Bass.

Buena Esperanza School, Bocas del Toro, Panama

On Monday Joe visited Buena Esperanza and found that the school has 66 students studying in one long building.   There is a separate rancho serving as the kitchen.  The backside of the long building has a working gutter and small kitchen tank, which feeds underground to the kitchen where the only tap is.  That water is only for the kitchen.  That tank has a bad leak at a tank pvc connection.

This tank feeds into the kitchen.

The community has a  550-gallon tank they’re willing for the school to use.

Operation Safe Drinking Water can  fix the leak and  install gutters to feed the community tank to provide drinking water.  They will put 60 feet of guttering across the front and feed it into a tank for drinking water.

We'll put in guttering and a tank in the front of the school for kids to use for drinking.

Materials for the whole project – fixing the rear kitchen tank leak, putting in 60 feet of guttering across the front and plumbing it into the drinking tank, along with supplying the base — will cost about $200.

The principal said the real problem he faces is water for the kids to drink.

Can you help?  Any donation to Operation Safe Drinking water, no matter how small or large, will bring safe, clean drinking water to this indigenous community and help save lives.

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